Rachel Devlin's guest appearances

Rachel Devlin

Enoch Pratt Free Library Podcast

Women's Media Center Live with Robin Morgan

WBZ Book Club

Carol McCabe Booker

Barbara Lee

Saru Jayaraman

Stacey Patton

Gwen Ifill

Sheryl Sandberg

Rachel Lloyd

Sheila Johnson

Marlo Thomas

Pat Mitchell

Kathy Najimy

Rebecca Traister

Katie Goodman

Rachel Simmons

Sally Kohn

OwlTail

Julia Rybak

Robin on how to protect your vote from hacking and other violations, Trump's War on Babies, and a new low in domestic abuse. Guests: Julia Rybak's unionizing of hotel workers; Rachel Devlin on how girls really desegregated America's schools.

WMC Live #255: Julia Rybak, Rachel Devlin. (Original Airdate 7/15/2018)

The struggle to desegregate America’s schools was a grassroots movement, and young women were its vanguard. In the late 1940s, parents began to file desegregation lawsuits with their daughters, forcing Thurgood Marshall and other civil rights lawyers to take up the issue and bring it to the Supreme Court. After the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, girls far outnumbered boys in volunteering to desegregate formerly all-white schools.In A Girl Stands at the Door, historian Rachel Devlin tells the remarkable stories of these desegregation pioneers. She also explains why black girls were seen, and saw themselves, as responsible for the difficult work of reaching across the color line in public schools. Highlighting the extraordinary bravery of young black women, this bold revisionist account illuminates today’s ongoing struggles for equality.Rachel Devlin is an associate professor of history at Rutgers University. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.Writers LIVE programs are supported in part by a bequest from The Miss Howard Hubbard Adult Programming Fund. 

<p>The struggle to desegregate America’s schools was a grassroots movement, and young women were its vanguard. In the late 1940s, parents began to file desegregation lawsuits with their daughters, forcing Thurgood Marshall and other civil rights lawyers to take up the issue and bring it to the Supreme Court. After the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, girls far outnumbered boys in volunteering to desegregate formerly all-white <a href="http://schools.In" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">schools.In</a> A Girl Stands at the Door, historian Rachel Devlin tells the remarkable stories of these desegregation pioneers. She also explains why black girls were seen, and saw themselves, as responsible for the difficult work of reaching across the color line in public schools. Highlighting the extraordinary bravery of young black women, this bold revisionist account illuminates today’s ongoing struggles for equality.Rachel Devlin is an associate professor of history at Rutgers University. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.Writers LIVE programs are supported in part by a bequest from The Miss Howard Hubbard Adult Programming Fund. </p>

Writers LIVE: Rachel Devlin, A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools